Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-11-24
Whole number OF school dist in the Co
. = Of joint dist in the Co.
e . Of schools with 2 depts

1tV uiHefeAt persons emptO9SQ IN lue a.
diEefent Districts. 49,. 4. ~. $50
No persons Of school age who have at
,-.egdsd school 49,. 80. - 1sOs7
NO o. ether persons who have attended
nCnoOl .--s..-.. ...s..sss.as.t 1900. 4b
NO Of persons between and is in the
county ...... ................ 1,1SO
No of persons between and is whe
:, have attended school j. p. i "a, e.5sl
Percentage or enFellinent bf Whole No
. persone Of school age -, ........... 70 26
Percentage Of enrolm, nj Of persons be-
tween and is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1884
Whole 70 day. attendance OF all pupils ssi,6os
No OF distrcts having libraries. .. IA
NO volumes In the libraries $500. 1881
SSsn value OF all libraries, .......... Si,3i5 %
No towns In the county having public
horaries tst.ss. s....-........ .
No private schools reported ......... 0
No pupils registered IN them that have
not attended public schools ....... $50
Cash Nalae OF ell the school houses i'd
Cash value OF al the school sites in the
county ......: ;. -, :. :. -. ls44S 90
maps, etc :. ............ -. 5555 90
No districts which have adopted a list
OF text books .....--..s.ss .ts..4a.i4t 100
No dist which use only those adopted. SO
Am paid for service OF male teachers $i74S4 %
Amt paid for service of female teachers 409l5 Oh
Whole amt OF teachers wages -. 49,. 5o459 06
Avrge wages per month Of male teacher % %
Average wages per month OF female
Amount received from all sources for
school purposes -. -. !. 49,. ll7s4a 80
Amt expended for all school purposes. 6s9s5 IS
Amount remaining on hand at close of
the year. 49,. ........... 2s4Os 81
ssamnsa dqafnS s sasssF.
First trade y Second grade 20, Third
BChue 90. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
No certificates granted female teachers 27S
First grade IL, Second grade 81. Third
gFaue <ou ..+s.s..t .....-.t..-..s...
Whole number certificates granted dur
e.
Whole No certificates refused during
the year: ...... ...-.....-...... 349
No teachers who hold state certificates -
No who are graduates of Normal schools %
M who have at some time attended
Normal schools ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. so
No days occupied in conducting exami-
nations. Institutes and Teachers
meetings .............. .......... 90
No new school houses built during the
year
Cost Of all school houses built during
the year. ............... $50. ...-.. $1,000
No male graduates from High Schools
during the year ....-........,..... 10
No female graduates from High Schools
during the year.......,.. ........... %
Whole NO whs have at any time gradu-
ated from High schools in this county 1850
Whole No of pupils registered IN High
Schools daring the year,. 4l5
There are many other statistical
items TO be found in my annual report
but they are of little interest and there
fore omitted in this short report.
Nine towns show an increase in school
population. There has been a falling
off in all others. 1t may be that the
law passed last winter, making it the
duty of the district clerk to give the
town clerk the names of all the persons
of school age has something to do with
the loss. BY this means the town clerk
is enabled to discover whether or not
any persons have been enrolled twice,
which IS pretty apt to be the case in
joint districts. The law making first
grade certificates good for four years,
and second grade good for two years,
acts as strong incentive to many
teachers and the number applying for
certificate Of the higher grades has in
creased from "a 1886 to lI3 ia 1887.
The High schools OF the county, nine
in number, are doing an excellent edu-
cational work. Some of them have
added 10 their course of study and one,
Boscobel, has this year been placed up
on the accredited list. This means that
pupils who graduate from this school
shall be admitted to the state university
without any examination. The High
schools receiving the largest amounts
for tuition from outside pupils are
Bloomington S174.SO and Mt Hope
SAL 40. Lancaster High school seems
to be the only one in the county having
strong course in language. five pupils
in this school taking German and thirty
one pupils taking Latin. Boscobel has
now added Latin to the course of study.
The summer review school conduct d
by Mr.. G. K. Showalter, at Cassville,
was well attended and held most sue
ceSsful term. This school, being held
when the public schools are not in SEES
sion, offers teachers an excellent oppor-
tunity for review and for taking up new
branches of study. MontfOrt High
school graduated two pupils, Boscobel
six, Bloomington seven, Hazel Green
three. Lancaster six, P0tosi four, and
Mt. Hope four, at the close of the sum
mer terms. While writing of High
schools, would respectfully call the
attention OF this Board and through this
report, the school officers and the peo-
pie of the county generally, to section
one and two, chapter 352. laws of 1885.
pages 127 and 12S, school code of 1885.
They are too long to insert in this place,
but these sections hold out the strong
est inducements for townships to organ
ize and conduct very good free High
schools that cannot fail to prove bene-
ticIal in every way. Very few towns
throughout the state have taken advant-
age of this act and consequently the
special fund set apart for this purpose
is rapidly accommodating. The law
passed by the last Legislature, relating
to school libraries did not seem to be
well understood. But one town in the
county, Fennimore, took advantage of
the act. While the amount retained
from the school fund, Give per cent
was small, some fifty volumes were
purchased which during the winter will
furnish much valuable aud entertain
ing reading to about one thousand
persons Towns and school districts
should look into this matter before an
other school year. The experiment is
certainly warth trying and is undoubt-
eddy the cheapest plan by which a
large amount of reading can be
to the people. If on
trial the plan proves unsatisfactory |
it can be easily dropped. The course
of study for country schools is still at |
work, although in places it cannot be |
practically carried out until a uniform
Ity of text books is attained. The ex-
animation for common school diplomas
was written by 3S4 pupils in 90 schools
and liz pupils were successful. Very |
nearly 5000 certificates of promotion
from Primary to Middle Form work
lndfrom Middle to Upper Form work,
were sent to the different districts and
4 large majority of the teachers gave
he required examination. The result
was highly satisfactory in every way,
and the interest manifested was most
gratifying. The greatest obstacle to
desired thoroughness and progress in
our country schools is one that can be
,asily removed by he different districts.
This obstacle is LACK OF UNIFORMITY OF
TEXT BOOKS. The series in each school
should be alike and no others should
% allowed to be used as texts for class
work. The number of daily recitations
IAN then be diminished and system can
De secured. 1t makes but little differ
nee who publishes the books used but
Uniformity in them is most desirable
This mixed condition of things never
hould have been allowed in district,
)ut since it does exist, it should be ban
shed at once feel positive that every
country school teacher and every one
Iaving to do directly with school work
will heartily indorSe the quick, de-
isive and intelligent action of school